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While I like the option of having the features of PTAT and Auto-Hop, I found it to be in conflict with other scheduled recordings, so I disabled it and setup all of my recordings the old fashioned way.

I have PTAT enabled and we have loved it. But I haven't used AutoHop yet.

That is not to say that we won't use AutoHop, but so far we have watched shows on the same night that they air. Since we don't watch that much network programming, I don't know how often we would watch something a day or two later.

Used PTAT for a while but decided to turn it off. Great for finding shows you didn't know about, but just isn't worth to possibility of recording conflicts. I might turn it back on when the 2012/2013 season starts, but for now timers work the best for me.

Turned it off. Only watch a couple of network shows so it is not worth tying up a tuner at prime time for that purpose. My wife and I are the dreaded older demographic so none of the networks are interested in putting shows on for us and when we find one we like they usually cancel it. Most of our stuff is off the "cable" channels and PTAT does not help for that.

Like many others here I don't watch a lot of network programming, but I do like the PTAT feature as there are times when someone recommends something that WAS on and then I can go back and take a look. I've used it 3 times in the first month I've had it. As for AutoHop, I love it! Just wish it worked for everything.

PTAT is the #1 reason I switched to the Hopper. My wife was always complaining during the fall that she could never record things as we had constant timer conflicts. PTAT completely alleviated that. She loves it as well, because if we forget to set a timer for a new show that looks like it could be interesting - it's no big deal because we got it automatically anyway.

I watch "Bones" last night for the first time because of PTAT. I'll be watching next week for the season premiere. Last month, I turned on PTAT on Monday nights for "Grimm" and ended up watching all four episodes of "Stars Earn Stripes" as a result. I watched "Grimm" without waiting for the auto-hop.

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I would like to see the feature of simultaneously recording the BIG 4 networks during other time periods when all four are broadcasting similar events. This would sure reduce the number of timers and tuners needed. Think the morning news shows (Today, GMA, etc.) as well at Leno, Letterman & Kimmel.

I don't watch many things in prime time anymore, and DISH doesn't carry my local broadcast stations in HD anyway, so it doesn't work.

I'm not sure I would enable it even if they were offered in HD. I only watch my local news from the station in-town and really nothing more. I used to be a big LOST fan on ABC, but haven't watched anything in prime time since they concluded the show a couple years ago. No good sitcoms since Friends either....